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"Cat's in the Cradle" is a folk rock song by American singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, from his fourth studio album, Verities & Balderdash (1974). The single topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in December 1974. As Chapin's only number-one song, it became his signature song and a staple for folk rock music.
Chapin's best-known songs include "Taxi" and "Cat's in the Cradle." As a dedicated humanitarian, Chapin fought to end world hunger. He was a key participant in the creation of the Presidential Commission on World Hunger in 1977. [1] [2] In 1987, Chapin was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his humanitarian work. [3]
Gian Pyres (born Gianpiero Giuseppe Piras, [1] 20 October 1973) is an English guitarist, best known for his work with extreme metal band Cradle of Filth [2] for which he recorded guitars for Cruelty and the Beast (1998), Midian (2000), Bitter Suites to Succubi (2001) and Lovecraft & Witch Hearts (2002).
"Farmer's Almanac" and "Cat's in the Cradle" were released as singles, but failed to chart; the album itself, however, reached No. 48 on the country charts. The album has backing vocals by Elvis Presley 's old backing group The Jordanaires (who had also backed Cash on some of his earliest Columbia recordings in the late 1950s), and Cash's mother.
[3] Deborah Frost of Entertainment Weekly, however, gave the album a C− and called it "a weak attempt to pad Ugly out to LP length with Lynyrd Skynyrd licks, Mister Rogers jokes, a scarily straight Harry Chapin cover ('Cat's in the Cradle'), and 'Mr. Recordman,' the most pathetic love song to a record company ever written. These kids should ...
At the Cat's Cradle, 1992 is the sixth live album by the American rock band Ween. It was released on November 25, 2008, on Chocodog Records. It was released on November 25, 2008, on Chocodog Records. The 2-disc package includes a CD containing a live performance from December 9, 1992, at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, North Carolina.
Features a guitar lick borrowed from "Rock Me Amadeus". The video was done on JibJab, using the same style as White Stripes videos. "Cockroaches" Peter and the Wolf (1988) Original, part of "The Carnival of the Animals – Part Two", inspired by "The Carnival of the Animals" by Camille Saint-Saëns "Comedy Bang! Bang! Theme" Medium Rarities (2017)
This seems like a more likely source of "cat's in the cradle" than the story about cats sucking the breath out of infants. As to "silver spoon", it was once common even in families of modest means for some relative (generally a grandparent) to award a new infant with a silver spoon engraved with the name and birth date of the child.